The tech world experienced a costly and highly consequential wake-up call this week with the revelation that Chinese newcomer DeepSeek had developed an advanced AI model requiring just millions — rather than billions — of dollars in development costs. Despite concerns about DeepSeek security and that it possibly copied rival ChatGPT, the news sent US…
In 2005, three years before its first successful orbital launch, a fledgling space startup called SpaceX petitioned the US government to let it use the storied Cape Canaveral launchpad once home to the Apollo space program. Old-school space companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin bristled at the idea and lobbied aggressively to block the deal….
The most-liked Persian-language tweet of all time comes from an unlikely source. The winner is not Ayatollah Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s octogenarian Supreme Leader who has become a regular poster on X of virulently anti-Israel, antisemitic and anti-Western content. The unlikely winner, in fact, is closer to home. On January 11, 2020, former President Donald…